"The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." — Josh Sugarman, 1988, Violence Policy Center."

So the event used to trigger the attack on the 2nd Amendment using the fear stirred by Josh Sugarmann in 1988 is centered in his own hometown.